This guide will show you how to move your self-hosted WordPress blog to a new domain. If you are looking to move your WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted installation use this guide instead. Moving your self-hosted WordPress.org blog to a different domain needn’t be a complicated or particularly time-consuming task, but there are some important…

Google’s blog publishing service, Blogger, is a popular content management system for casual bloggers, but it doesn’t provide nearly as many features and the degree of versatility that a self-hosted WordPress site does. Powering almost a quarter of all websites, self-hosted WordPress blogs come with a vast database of themes and plugins as well as…

If you already have a blog on WordPress.com and would like to move it to your own (self-hosted) domain name using WordPress.org, this tutorial will show you how. Wordpress.com has several inherent issues that make it less desirable for many bloggers. The main issues are the lack of control and security, along with the inability…

Google AdSense is the publisher’s component of the world’s most popular pay-per-click (PPC) advertising platform, and as such, it is among the most popular ways to monetize a blog. Its popularity, plus the fact that it is easy to use, is the reason it is my #1 choice for monetizing your first blog (see Step…

Before beginning this tutorial you will need to install and activate the free Jetpack plugin. Read this post for instructions on how to install Jetpack. While there’s no end to the plugins available for self-hosted WordPress blogs which track and display various stats, using the Jetpack Stats feature via the Jetpack plugin is one of…

Before beginning this tutorial you will need to install and activate the free Jetpack plugin. Read this post for instructions on how to install Jetpack. Jetpack includes a subscriptions module which allows your readers to easily subscribe to your blog in order to receive updates by email on the latest comments and posts. This powerful…

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